If this is the case, then why is it that so many of fighting age are among those who are fleeing?

Should they not be the ones staying behind and sending their women and children to the safety of the host countries rather than leave them there to
face whatever horrors may be visited upon them?

The irony is that people here attack the people in the Middle East as being violent, religious zealots who are always at war. Then they turn around
and attack the people from the Middle East who are pacifists & want to escape war for peaceful lands. Damned if they do, damned if they don't.

Not to mention the Obama administration usually considers all males of adult ages as being lawful kills if they're near a target in drone strikes.

Plus, many of them come from regions where males are expected to be the primary breadwinners, and many times, the family saviors. So of course they're
more likely to be the ones made to trek to a foreign land first. They're expected to find a safe place to settle down, establish a life there, then
either send money back or send for the extended family. Many of these people have to spend a lot of money to make the journeys, so many times they
can't afford to bring the rest of the family at first. That's the same reason in some of these places, they can only afford to send the eldest child
or eldest male to schools.

Do you think we would notice 100 people committing the kind of terrorist acts we see in places they are fleeing?

What if 1% of these refugees eventually become US citizens, join the US military, and save other American soldiers in some of our upcoming wars? And
what if one the refugees has a brilliant child who becomes the next Steve Jobs? His biological dad is from Syria. Or what if one of the refugee
families has a talented granddaughter, who goes on to become the next Shakira? Her grandparents are from Lebanon.

Surely if you're allowed to use hypotheticals to boost your argument, so am I. Right? Why should we always have to assume the worse?

In fact, my great grandfather came to America ahead of his family back in the late 1800's and once he found a place brought them over and helped to
settle the city that was my hometown. I have no problems with that scenario.

I worry that the refugees may be used as cover for others to make their way here.

I just think it odd that men, who would otherwise be fighting for their homeland, are leaving behind women and children in a situation where they are
in mortal danger each moment of the day from violence and war whereas if they were sent ahead to a place where such atrocities are not occurring they
would at least be safe in their persons.

we should consider ourselves lucky they live an ocean away from us otherwise they would be pouring over our border by the million. i'm sure the
vetting process for these refugees to enter the US will be a lot stricter than the mass exodus that is happening in europe right now.

In fact, my great grandfather came to America ahead of his family back in the late 1800's and once he found a place brought them over and helped to
settle the city that was my hometown. I have no problems with that scenario.

I worry that the refugees may be used as cover for others to make their way here.

I just think it odd that men, who would otherwise be fighting for their homeland, are leaving behind women and children in a situation where they are
in mortal danger each moment of the day from violence and war whereas if they were sent ahead to a place where such atrocities are not occurring they
would at least be safe in their persons.

Thanks for the thoughtful response.

The thing is, these refugees won't have the freedom people assume they will. They can't just come into the US and roam freely like a US citizen could.
They have extensive background checks before being allowed to stay, can have case workers, and a lot of other hurdles to jump through. And
if/when they're given work visas, they'll have to stay employed to keep those work visas. In other words, they're tracked pretty extensively,
especially after 9/11. Just look into the roadblocks that stop many asylum seeking Afghan translators from coming to the US, even though they helped
NATO during the Afghanistan War.

My Dad's an Imam & a professor, and the FBI visits their community quite regularly. There are several hundred Saudi and Kuwaiti citizens there and I
can guarantee you the federal & local governments know exactly who's who.

If you really think corruption from those in power is bad, why let their corruption taint your own views about others?

My view of people in general is filtered by my past, as is everyone's. I always try to maintain an open mind and not let judgements creep in, but it
is not always easy to do.

Persons I meet in specific, I let me intuition guide me and gauge their reactions as I interact with them. I can generally spot "good people" early on
and "snakes in the grass" not long after depending on how well they have become at hiding their true nature.

Great idea, Fuhrer Obama, with the swipe of his big appendage, can just pick and choose when, how, and where we as American tax payers have to pay for
the refuges WELFARE.

We can't even help the people here, homeless on the street, mentally ill, true hurting, HUNGARY American children, and orphans BE DAMNED...

The children can't work, not in America, their going to have to suck the American teet. We have not even gotten into the massive problem with already
radicalized refugees, and the soon to be muslim children to turn radical, by blaming the WEST, for ALL their problems...

These humanitarian aids are nothing more the a sympathetic muslim loving, American hating POTUS to ruin us even further.. Piss' Obama'//.

I'm starting to wish I never gave Obama my permission for military action in Syria. But who could have imagined that bombing a country could result
in refugees trying to avoid getting killed? That came totally out of nowhere.

I just hope we never get another Nobel Peace Prize winning President. We're running out of Middle East countries to bomb.

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